Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:22:46 -0700 From: Yann Ramin <yramin@redshift.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large UIDs (>65536) Message-ID: <00060923222602.26335@atp.atpn.com> In-Reply-To: <200006100606.XAA01356@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200006100606.XAA01356@mass.cdrom.com>
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Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages from pwd_mkdb: "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters chpass: updating the database... pwd_mkdb: 140000 > recommended max uid value (65535) chpass: done I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linux one of them?), and I interpeted that as an error message, not a warning. I was silly :) Yann On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs > > (unsigned long) on a FreeBSD system? What would this require changing? > > From what I can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile > > everything, you should be ok. Am I missing anything here? > > How about this line from <sys/types.h>: > > typedef u_int32_t uid_t; /* user id */ > > It pays to do your own research - then you only get to look silly in > front of yourself. 8) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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